Nolte: CNN Openly Campaigns to Blacklist Infowars

Mike Coppola/Getty Images for TurnerJOHN NOLTE10 Aug 2018

Far-left CNN is on a blacklisting rampage, which undoubtedly has only begun with Infowars and Alex Jones.

While there is no question there is a perfectly legitimate line of reporting in pressuring behemoth social media companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to better explain their opaque standards and policies, that is not even close to what the McCarthyite CNN is attempting to do.

Instead, under the sheep’s clothing of “journalism” and backed by the abusive power of parent company Time-Warner, CNN is relentlessly filing complaints with these social media giants against Infowars, an online outlet that frequently criticizes the anti-Trump network.

A story that examines how social media giants come up with, apply, and enforce their content rules would be a worthy piece of reporting. But if you look at CNN’s “reporting” and the obsessive social media activity of one of its lead activists, Oliver Darcy, there is only one goal: to pester and shame social media outlets into blacklisting Jones and Infowars.

If CNN were sincerely interested in journalism (as opposed to scalping one of its critics), in informing the public (as opposed to silencing someone with whom CNN disagrees), the so-called journalism would be every bit as aggressive in asking Twitter and others why left-wing racists like the New York Times‘s Sarah Jeong and hate-minister Louis Farrakhan are still allowed on these platforms.

Instead, CNN is aggressively and intentionally singling out Infowars and Infowars only, which proves that this is not a legitimate act of journalism on CNN’s part to do what reporters are supposed to do — discover information and pass it along to the public.

Rather, CNN is just another partisan, left-wing activist looking for an outcome, demanding a critic be disappeared.

Here is all the proof you need:

Twitter said it would have taken action against Alex Jones/InfoWars had the content that got them in trouble w/Facebook & YouTube been posted on Twitter.

But all of the content that initially led to YouTube/FB taking action is, in fact, posted to Twitterhttps://t.co/WpEZsLjr0i

FWIW, I only had time to watch a sliver of the hundreds of hours of video that InfoWars/Jones have uploaded to Twitter. Most of the InfoWars shows are streamed and archived in their entirety on Twitter's platform. There's probably a lot more there.

I told Twitter Wednesday morning content that prompted other tech companies to take action against InfoWars/Jones was on Twitter. A spox declined to say if Twitter would review. Then @delbius suggested later that such content wasn't on Twitter? Perplexing. https://t.co/WpEZsLjr0ipic.twitter.com/E1cPB0mkvc

These are bad people who are losing the argument and their audience. And so, like all bad people who cannot win an honest debate, all they have left is to abuse their waning power, to bully and to scream, “Shut up!”